I Need Your Help to Fix My No-Bake Peanut Butter Bars Baking Fail
I'm pretty embarrassed to admit this but I had an no-bake baking failure this weekend. How does that happen??? Anyway, I need your help to figure out where I went wrong.
So I found this recipe in one of the local newspapers for no bake peanut butter bars and I was like 'hey, no bake, sounds like there's going to be dessert tonight.' Yeah, I failed miserably and I'm hoping you can help me figure out where I went wrong.
First of all, here's the receipe:
- 1 c. butter, softened
- 2 c. graham cracker crumbs
- 2 c. powdered sugar
- 1 c. peanut butter
You combine those ingredients and mix them up. Then you're to let it chill for a bit and put into a 9x13 pan. There's a frosting that goes on the top which consists of 1 1/2 cups of milk chocolate chips and 4 tbsp. of butter.
I did all this and they're mush. The frosting is fine, it's the bottom part. It's completely gooey. Don't get me wrong, it's tastes good, although it's extremely rich. I left them out overnight thinking maybe they'd harden a bit but they're still mush.
Should they have gone back in the fridge? What am I missing? I'd appreciate any insight as to what I did wrong because I'm at a total loss.